| Show NOREEN Union Art Exhibitions Committee designed the map of the Middle the land of The geography of this land ranges from the snow covered mountains of Turkey to the dry desert sand dunes of the forbidding Area of Contrast The Middle East The Middle East stands out as an area of magnificent it ranges from the snow-covered mountains of Turkey to the barren and dunes of the IT IS THE PAST and the intermingled in a fascinating display of an evolving but the fusion of cultures is not limited to archaeology and ancient It is a vivid facet of everyday life in contemporary Middle In the heart of the Cairo apprentices learn their craft in and across the stands Egyptian universities training engineers and scientists in modern IN an outbreak of cholera was brought to an abrupt halt by the Egyptian Department of on the streets of charms were sold whose magic spell to prevent the disease had been invoked thousands of years The frontier between the centuries is the Here the untroubled past of the countryside meets the violent sociological evolution of The Middle Eastern cities have grown URBANIZATION has only added to the conflict between the old world of settled Islamic practices and the strange forces of modern It is in the cities where political discontent causes riots and protests against the creation of Israel or against the Baghdad Contending political parties mass to shout their slogans in the streets possibly even forcing the government to resign under the pressures of popular There is no in which diverse groups of the Middle East have blended to form a single culture or a typical Middle East There are Kurds all descending from ancient but all distinct from one For mass migrations have pushed across the Middle East bringing new blood and new Some of these invasions brought permanent settlements and new Conquerors mingled with Some migrations ebbed other have preserved their identity until the present The earliest of these invasions lies in the dawn of THE PEOPLES of the Mediterranean overran the Middle East and contributed to the foundation stock on which many later racial invasions were The latest influx of new peoples is the migration of European Jews to This migration is not only introducing a European racial strain into the Middle but is coalescing with the Oriental Jew to produce |
